Category: Security

Mar 03, 2015

Lollipop Not Encrypted By Default

Encryption protects your data, even from the government. The FBI, law enforcement and government agencies went ballistic when Apple released

Mar 02, 2015

Another Reason to Use Chrome

Google continues to modify its products and services to enhance security and provide privacy tools. That’s not to say that

Feb 26, 2015

Lenovo Computers Ship with “Bonus” Software

The last several days have been filled with reports of Lenovo shipping malware infected computers capable of intercepting and decrypting

Feb 12, 2015

Critical Active Directory Patch is Released

On Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released a fix that it has been working on for over a year. The vulnerability impacts

Feb 11, 2015

User Controlled Encryption – Box Delivers

Ars technica reported that Box, a cloud storage provider, will give control of encryption keys to the end‑user. Box has

Feb 10, 2015

Keypad on a USB Flash Drive?

I’m a big fan of the Ironkey flash drives for security and durability. Toshiba has introduced a secure flash drive

Jan 29, 2015

Are Passwords Dead?

I’ve never been a big fan of passwords, although if that’s the only available authentication method, the password should be

Jan 22, 2015

iPhone Not Secure? Say It’s Not True.

According to Edward Snowden’s lawyer, Snowden will not use an iPhone because of security issues. Snowden claims that the iPhone

Jan 21, 2015

Annual List of Top 25 Worst Passwords

SplashData just released their list of the worst passwords of 2014 and it isn’t pretty. Folks are still using the

Jan 20, 2015

Cloud Security Concerns Executives

SC Magazine summarized the “Cloud Adoption, Practices and Priorities Survey Report,” which was released by the Cloud Security Alliance. The

Jan 19, 2015

Stupid Is As Stupid Does

It isn’t just something from a Forrest Gump movie, people can still be dumb as dirt. As if it isn’t

Jan 14, 2015

Windows 7 Exits Mainstream Support

On January 13, 2015, Windows 7 exited the classification of mainstream support and moved into extended support. Some believe that